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I have an Access program that creates appointments in the user's Outlook  
  
Calendar.  Occasionally the appointment gets cancelled and needs to be  
  
deleted from the Calendar.  When this happens an email message is generated  
  
and sent to the user.  
  
Several users have asked if something can be added to the email that would  
  
automatically delete the appointment, or rather, make it simple for them to  
  
delete the appointment from the mail message.  Our exchange servers won't  
  
permit sending VBscripts in the mail.  
  
I'm looking for ideas of how to automate this.  Adding some sort of link or  
  
something to the email message that would permit deleting the appointment  
  
with a click.  
  
I would be grateful for any ideas or suggestion.  
  
Randy Harris

What TYPES of items are you using for this? MailItems or MeetingItems?  
  
When the meeting organizer updates the MeetingItem on his/her calendar,  
  
the change cascades to the meeting attendees, including if the item is  
  
deleted. Additionally, there's space to include a message or other  
  
information pertaining to the MeetingItem just like an email.  
  
Randy Harris wrote:

"David C. Holley" <DavidCHolley@netscape.net> wrote in message  
  
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There's no meeting or attendees.  It's a simple AppointmentItem in the  
  
user's Calendar Folder.  The AppointmentItem can be easily identified by a  
  
UserProperty attached to it.  
  
What I'm looking for is a way to send something in an email.  Some sort of  
  
macro or script or link or something that the user can simply click to  
  
delete the AppointmentItem.  I was thinking that perhaps some sort of macro,  
  
run from a toolbar button, that would read the currently open message to get  
  
the UserProperty value, then go delete the appointment.  
  
I don't know if it's even possible to do this, I was simply looking for some  
  
advice.

What information does the AppointmentItem represent and are you sending  
  
it to everyone? Who determines if the Appointment should be cancelled  
  
and how do they do it? From within Access? From within Outlook? Can you  
  
shed some light on the bigger picture?

"David C. Holley" <DavidCHolley@netscape.net> wrote in message  
  
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The AppointmentItem will have been created by another process.  It is an  
  
Access program that schedules Instructors to teach classes in a training  
  
center.  Occasionally, the class will get cancelled.  When that happens an  
  
email is generated and sent to the instructor.  I'm looking for some  
  
simplified method of deleting the AppointmentItem in the instructor's  
  
schedule from that email.  Since I haven't yet been able to conceive of a  
  
better method, I am assuming that the instructor will have to do something  
  
to cause the deletion when he reads the message.  
  
I've been trying to get it to work with a COM add-in.  Unsuccessfully, so  
  
far.  I tried building one from scratch using a template from the Office  
  
2000 Developer's CD.  It will delete the appointment but I can't get it to  
  
register with Outlook.  I downloaded a couple of samples from the web.  One  
  
is a phone number changer thingee.  It registers with Outlook but gets  
  
errors when I try to run it.  I haven't gotten any further with another one  
  
that is supposed to extract attachments.  I think if I can find one that  
  
actually works I can study it and figure out what is wrong with mine.  
  
The reason that I posted here to begin with is that I don't know whether I'm  
  
going about this whole matter in anything like a rational manner.  Perhaps I  
  
am overlooking a much simpler means of accomplishing the objective.  
  
Thanks for any light you can shed on this matter.

While I don't recommend this, you'll probably want to create code that  
  
executes on CLOSE event for on item. The article on the CLOSE event in  
  
the Oulook Object Model found in Outlook's VBA Help file provdes the  
  
information on setting up the code to run. While this is a feasible  
  
soultion, I don't recommend it for two reasons...  
  
to work. If the PC is replaced or reimaged, you'll have to setup the PC  
  
again.  
  
already exists within Outlook between users today. When I, as a meeting  
  
organizor, send out a meeting request to a person or person(s) the  
  
meeting can appear immediately on his/her calendar. If I then cancel the  
  
meeting, a notice is sent to the attendee(s) which cancels the meeting  
  
and removes it from their calendar.  
  
Randy Harris wrote: